You can use https://lemmyverse.net/ to check actual subscriber numbers.
Edit: Why YSK: New users of Lemmy can find the number low and think that a community is dead or inactive, when infact it might be a thriving place with a lot of activity.
You can use https://lemmyverse.net/ to check actual subscriber numbers.
Edit: Why YSK: New users of Lemmy can find the number low and think that a community is dead or inactive, when infact it might be a thriving place with a lot of activity.
Automatically distributing users across instances fails to treat them as independently operate websites. That’s not going to fly.
Viewing everything through a user lens, and ignoring that site operators may have site specific goals is, uh, not ok.
It can be done still keeping independent instances, by just distributing data and load across instances connected to the network, depending on their available resources, instead of explicitly creating new duplicated users on each instance.
It however require a lot of work and effort. I don’t know if anyone will ever manage to implement it.